What fonts can you assume Windows users will have? Mac users? And how about (gulp!) Linux & other UNIX users? Oh, & don't forget mobile users: iOS (iPhone, iPad, iPod Touch), Android, & Windows Phone 7!
One answer can be found at Code Style Font Sampler, which asks visitors to fill out a survey asking them about the fonts they have on their computers. You should take the results with a grain of salt, as the results are biased in favor of users who:
Still, it provides some useful results. Go take a look & it'll give you some numbers you can work with.
Various resources also exist that give web developers some hard numbers & lists they can use when determining the fonts available on various operating systems.
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The following fonts have served as the default system fonts on Windows:
Version | Default System Font |
---|---|
10 | Segoe UI1 |
8.1 | Segoe UI1 |
8 | Segoe UI1 |
7 | Segoe UI1 |
Vista | Segoe UI1 |
XP | Tahoma2 |
Me (Millennium Edition) | MS Sans Serif3 |
2000 | Tahoma2 |
98 Second Edition | MS Sans Serif3 |
98 | MS Sans Serif3 |
NT 4 | MS Sans Serif3 |
95 | MS Sans Serif3 |
NT 3.5 | MS Sans Serif3 |
NT 3.1 | MS Sans Serif3 |
3.1 | MS Sans Serif3 |
3 | Helv3 |
2 | Helv3 |
1 | Helv3 |
The number of typefaces & fonts Microsoft includes with Windows has been steadily increasing. First a table:
Typefaces (New) | Fonts (New) | |
---|---|---|
XP | 29 | 136 |
Vista | 90 | 191 |
7 | 111 (15) | 257 (49) |
8 | 118 (6) | 279 (17) |
8.1 | 124 (10) | 322 (45) |
10 | 93 (10) | 171 (45) |
10 (FoD) | 84 (3) | 269 (9) |
And now a detailed breakdown:
For more info:
Wikipedia’s “List of typefaces included with Microsoft Windows” lists fonts included with Windows 3.1–10.
In addition to these, you should also check out Microsoft's “Fonts and Products”, which lists fonts supplied not only with Microsoft’s products, but also included in UNIX, Mac OS X, & Adobe products.
Apple has a page detailing System Fonts for macOS & iOS.
The following fonts have served as the default system fonts on macOS:
Version | Default System Font |
---|---|
10.15 | |
10.14 Mojave | San Francisco |
10.13 High Sierra | San Francisco |
10.12 Sierra | San Francisco |
10.11 El Capitan | San Francisco |
10.10 Yosemite | Helvetica Neue |
10.9 Mavericks | Lucida Grande |
10.8 Mountain Lion | Lucida Grande |
10.7 Lion | Lucida Grande |
10.6 Snow Leopard | Lucida Grande |
10.5 Leopard | Lucida Grande |
10.4 Tiger | Lucida Grande |
10.3 Panther | Lucida Grande |
10.2 Jaguar | Lucida Grande |
10.1 Puma | Lucida Grande |
10.0 Cheetah | Lucida Grande |
The number of typefaces & fonts Apple includes with Mac OS X/OS X/macOS has varied. First a table:
Typefaces/Fonts | |||
---|---|---|---|
Installed | Available for Download | Available in Documents or Apps | |
10.3 Panther | – / 74 | – | – |
10.4 Tiger | – / 117 | – | – |
10.5 Leopard | – / 160 | – | – |
10.6 Snow Leopard | – / 249 | – | – |
10.7 Lion | – / 225 | – | – |
10.8 Mountain Lion | – / 242 | – | – |
10.9 Mavericks | – / 507 | – | – |
10.10 Yosemite | ? | – | – |
10.11 El Capitan | ? | – | – |
10.12 Sierra | – / 473 | – / 106 | – / 158 |
10.13 High Sierra | 193 / 488 | 58 / 107 | 134 / 197 |
10.14 Mojave | 180 / 488 | 61 / 187 | 134 / 198 |
And now a detailed breakdown:
Some interesting info is at Unicode fonts for Macintosh OS X computers.
There are hundreds of different UNIX variants out there (Linux itself is one, and there are hundreds of variants of Linux!), so saying with certainty what fonts are safe to assume are on any particular user's UNIX box is difficult. Fortunately, even though there are hundreds of UNIX flavors, there are only a few that make up the majority of desktop use.
Fedora 29: 59 typefaces & 300 fonts installed28
Ubuntu Server28
For more, see Fonts supplied with UNIX / XFree and GhostScript.
The following fonts have served as the default system fonts on iOS:
Version | Default System Font |
---|---|
12 | San Francisco |
11 | San Francisco |
10 | San Francisco |
9 | San Francisco |
8 | Helvetica Neue |
7 | Helvetica Neue |
6 | Helvetica Neue |
5 | Helvetica Neue |
4 | Helvetica Neue |
iPhone OS 3 | Helvetica |
iPhone OS 2 | Helvetica |
iPhone OS 1 | Helvetica |
When the iPad came out, it had more fonts on it than did the iPhone. Apple has since rectified that, & it's my guess that it will continue to make sure both devices have the same number of fonts on them.
iOS Version | Fonts | |
---|---|---|
iPhone | iPad | |
iPhone OS (iOS 1)29 | 11 typefaces & 23 fonts (?) | – |
230 | 11 typefaces & 33 fonts | – |
331 | 20 typefaces & 55 fonts (10 new typefaces & 22 new fonts) | – |
432 | 54 typefaces & 120 fonts (13 new typefaces & 28 new fonts) | 57 |
5 | 57 typefaces33 60 typefaces & 161 fonts (6 new typefaces & 32 new fonts)34 | |
635 | 206 fonts (58 downloadable as needed) | |
7 | 244 fonts (287 downloadable as needed)36 10 new typefaces & 37 new fonts37 | |
8 | 77 typefaces & TK fonts (2 new typefaces & 6 new fonts)38 74 typefaces & 245 fonts39 | |
9 | 75 typefaces & 248 fonts40 | |
1041 | 75 typefaces & 248 fonts | |
11 | ||
12 | 263 fonts installed ? fonts available for download ? available in documents or apps that use or request the font(s) |
Android is a bit more complicated, because while it doesn't include very many built in fonts, apps can bundle whatever fonts they want (note that this is now true for Apple's iOS as of version 4; however, since iOS also comes with over 50 built in fonts, most apps don't need to include their own).
Android versions 1 through 3 (code names: Cupcake, Donut, Eclair, Froyo, Gingerbread, & Honeycomb) included only 3 fonts:
You can read more about Droid:
Starting with version 4 of Android (codenamed Ice Cream Sandwich), Google introduced a new standard font: Roboto. Here are some webpages about Roboto:
Windows Phone 7 out of the box supports 16 fonts, including those in Core Fonts for the Web plus a few others. If you do not specify font-family
, Segoe WP is used by default. However, like Android & iOS, developers can embed their own fonts in their apps if they desire.
If you’re looking for my comments on Microsoft’s Core Fonts for the Web (Andalé Mono, Arial, Comic Sans, Courier New, Georgia, Impact, Times New Roman, Trebuchet MS, Verdana, & Webdings) & Microsoft’s ClearType Font Collection (Calibri, Cambria, Candara, Consolas, Constantia, Corbel), see My Thoughts on Fonts.
Segoe↩↩↩↩↩
Tahoma (typeface)↩↩
Microsoft Sans Serif↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩↩
Standard Windows Fonts↩
Fonts supplied with Windows XP↩
Fonts included with each version of Windows: Windows Vista Fonts↩
Lines counted from Windows 7 font list↩
Fonts included with Windows 7↩
Lines counted from Windows 8 font list↩
Lines counted from Windows 8.1 font list↩
See List of Installed Typefaces in Windows 10 (N. America)↩
Lines counted from Windows 10 font list↩↩
Lines counted from Windows 10 font list: Fonts included in Feature On Demand (FOD) packages↩↩
Lists found at Apple’s Mac OS X 10.3: Fonts list↩
Lists found at Apple’s Mac OS X 10.4: Fonts list↩
Lists found at Apple’s Mac OS X 10.5: Fonts list↩
List found at Microsoft’s Fonts supplied with Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard↩
List found at Apple’s Mac OS X v10.6: Fonts list↩
List found at Apple’s OS X Lion: Fonts list↩
List found at Apple’s OS X: Fonts included with Mountain Lion↩
List found at Apple’s OS X: Fonts included with Mavericks↩
List found at Wikipedia’s List of typefaces included with macOS: New fonts added with OS X 10.10 Yosemite↩
List found at Wikipedia’s List of typefaces included with macOS: New fonts added with OS X 10.11 El Capitan↩
Lists found at Apple’s Fonts included with macOS Sierra↩
Lists found at Wikipedia’s List of typefaces included with macOS: New fonts added with macOS 10.12 Sierra↩
Lists found at Apple’s Fonts included with macOS High Sierra↩
Lists found at Apple’s Fonts included with macOS Mojave & System Fonts. ↩
Result of fc-list
command. ↩↩
List from John Gruber’s iPhone Fonts. ↩
List from iOS Font List, availability set to 2.0. ↩
List from iOS Font List, availability set to 3.0. ↩
List from iOS Font List, availability set to 4.0. ↩
Lists from Apple’s iOS 5: Font list. ↩
List from iOS Font List, availability set to 5.0. ↩
Lists from Apple’s iOS 6: Font list. ↩
Lists from Apple’s iOS 7: Font list. ↩
List from jeradesign’s “List of fonts and font families added in iOS 7” ↩
List from iOS Font List, availability set to 8.0. ↩
List from Nick Cheng’s iOS 8 font list. ↩
List from Nick Cheng’s iOS 9 font list. ↩
List from Nick Cheng’s iOS 10 font list. ↩